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:''For the botanical term, see [[Stachys (term)]]''
 
:''For the botanical term, see [[Stachys (term)]]''
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'''''Stachys''''' is a [[genus]] of about 300 species of [[Annual plant|annual]] and [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[herb]]aceous plants and [[shrub]]s in the family [[Lamiaceae]]. The distribution of the genus covers [[Europe]], [[Asia]], [[Africa]], [[Australasia]] and [[North America]]. Common names include '''heal-all''', '''self-heal''', '''woundwort''', '''betony''',  '''lamb's ears''', and '''hedgenettle'''.  [[Stachys officinalis|Wood betony]], ''Stachys officinalis'', was the most important medicinal herb to the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s of early medieval Britain.
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The stems vary from 50-300 cm tall, with simple, opposite triangular [[leaf|leaves]] 1-14 cm long with serrated margins; in most species the leaves are softly hairy. The [[flower]]s are 1.2 cm long, clustered in the axils of the leaves on the upper part of the stem, the corolla 5-lobed with the top lobe forming a 'hood', varying from white to pink, purple, red or pale yellow.
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In Europe, ''stachys'' can be found growing in wastelands, grasslands and woodland edges.  All-heal thrives in any damp soil in full sun or in light shade. Plants are apt to become troublesome weeds in turf that is at all damp. Sow seed in very early spring in a flat outdoors, or give a short cold and moist conditioning treatment before sowing in a warm place. Growing from 1 to 2 feet high, with creeping, self-rooting, tough, square, reddish stems branching at leaf axis. The leaves are lance shaped, serrated and reddish at tip, about an inch long and 1/2 inch broad, grow on short stalks in opposite pairs down the square stem. The flowers grow from a clublike, somewhat square, whirled cluster, immediately below this club are a pair of stalkless leaves standing out on either side like a collar. Flowers are two lipped and tubular, the top lip is a purple hood, and the bottom lip is often white, it has three lobes with the middle lobe being larger and fringed upwardly. Flowers bloom at different times depending on climate and other conditions. Mostly from June to August. Gather whole plant when flowers bloom, dry for later herb use. Leaves and small flowers are edible.
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Stachys (from an old Greek name applied by Dioscorides to another group of plants, coming from the word for spike). Labiatae. Woundwort. Tall perennial herbs or diffuse annuals, rarely subshrubs or small shrubs, both greenhouse and hardy plants, little known to gardeners.
 
Stachys (from an old Greek name applied by Dioscorides to another group of plants, coming from the word for spike). Labiatae. Woundwort. Tall perennial herbs or diffuse annuals, rarely subshrubs or small shrubs, both greenhouse and hardy plants, little known to gardeners.
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*''[[Stachys affinis]]'' - Chinese artichoke
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*''[[Stachys ajugoides]]''
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*''[[Stachys albens]]'' - White Hedgenettle, Whitestem Hedgenettle
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*''[[Stachys albotomentosa]]''
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*''[[Stachys alopecuros]]''
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*''[[Stachys alpina]]'' - Alpine Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys annua]]'' - Annual Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys arvensis]]'' - Staggerweed, Field Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys bullata]]''
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*''[[Stachys byzantina]]'' - Woolly Betony, Lamb's Ear, S. ''lanata''
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*''[[Stachys candida]]''
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*''[[Stachys chamissonis var. cooleyae]]'' - Great Hedge Nettle, Coastal Hedge Nettle
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*''[[Stachys chrysantha]]''
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*''[[Stachys ciliata]]''
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*''[[Stachys citrina]]''
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*''[[Stachys coccinea]]''
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*''[[Stachys corsica]]''
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*''[[Stachys cretica]]''
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*''[[Stachys discolor]]''
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*''[[Stachys ehrenbergii]]''
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*''[[Stachys floridana]]'' - Florida Hedgenettle, Florida Betony
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*''[[Stachys germanica]]'' - Downy Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys glutinosa]]''
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*''[[Stachys hyssopifolia]]''
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*''[[Stachys iva]]''
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*''[[Stachys latana]]''
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*''[[Stachys lavandulifolia]]''
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*''[[Stachys libanotica]]''
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*''[[Stachys macrantha]]''
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*''[[Stachys macrostachya]]''
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*''[[Stachys mexicana]]'' - Mexican Hedge Nettle
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*''[[Stachys monnieri]]''
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*''[[Stachys officinalis]]'' - Betony
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*''[[Stachys palustris]]'' - Marsh Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys pumila]]''
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*''[[Stachys recta]]'' - Yellow Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys riddellii]]''
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*''[[Stachys scardia]]''
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*''[[Stachys sylvatica]]'' - Hedge Woundwort
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*''[[Stachys sylvestris]]''
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*''[[Stachys tenuifolia]]'' - Smooth Hedgenettle
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Image:Stachys_byzantina_flowers.jpg|''Stachys byzantina''
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Image:Stachys_palustris_2005.07.03_12.12.10.jpg|''Stachys palustris''
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Image:Illustration Stachys sylvatica0.jpg|''Stachys sylvatica'' (Hedge Woundwort)
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==References==
 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
 
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
 
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